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Book review: The Visitors by Catherine Burns

Book review: The Visitors by Catherine Burns

Horror fiction takes many forms. Good horror is an art form, one that requires considerable mastery and imagination. Psychological horror shades into dark fiction – bleak, gothic at times, often literary – and as ever, books can be hard to categorise. Catherine Burn’s The Visitors is one of those books.

  I’m only sharing some of the blurb as I think the rest is a spoiler.

“Marion Zetland lives…

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The Cabin Sessions book launch wrap up!

The launch of The Cabin Sessions proved to be a night beyond my wildest expectations!  The Alex Legg Memorial Foundation gave over the last Leggacy Sessions of the year, and I played host to a fine collection of musicians taking on the parts of various characters in my book.

Barbara Jeffrey and Jose Garcia as Rebekah and David Fisher. Phil Lester and Neesy Smith as Joshua Thorne and Hannah Fisher

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The Cabin Sessions available for preorder

The Cabin Sessions available for preorder

I am delighted to announce that my debut dark fiction novel is available for preorder. Just click on the link.

http://hellboundbookspublishing.com/cabinsessions.html

This book is special to me. I wrote it at the same time as A Perfect Square. I see the novels as twins. Both contain dark themes. Both aim to disturb.

With The Cabin Sessions I set out to explore themes of domestic violence and…

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The Cabin Sessions signed to HellBound Books!

The Cabin Sessions signed to HellBound Books!

As a novelist it doesn’t do to have favourites. Any more than a mother confesses her favourite child. I treasure each one of my literary babies. If I don’t, who will? After all, I gave birth to them, I did all the hard labour. And each book is special in its own way. Even that dark one with the brooding eyes, standing in the corner where the sun never shines.

I wrote The Cabin Sessions in 2015.…

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Author Interview - James Watts

Author Interview – James Watts

I am delighted to welcome author James Watts, whose debut horror novel Them was released by Fear Front publishing on 15 May 2017.

Tell me a little about yourself James. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?

I grew up in the small town of West Jefferson, Alabama. Born in Birmingham, Alabama on March 17, 1976.  A few years after high school I moved to Panama City, Fl for around 10 years. I…

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